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World's best fighters

Since WWII, what aircraft could claim to be the world’s best air superiority fighters? Give no consideration for cost effectiveness, just what aircraft prevails against its opposition. Here is my opinion:

Meteor 1945 – 1947
MiG-15 1948
F-86 1949 – 1952
MiG-17 1953 – 1954
MiG-19S 1955 – 1956
F-8A 1957 – 1958
MiG-21F 1959 – 1960
F-4B 1961 – 1966
F-4E 1967 – 1973
F-14A 1974
F-15A 1975 – 1978
F-15C 1979 – 1986
Su-27 1987 – 1991
F-15C 1992 – 2006 (armed with AIM-120)
F-22A 2007 – today

Perhaps the Draken held the title in 1958. The F-104 was a great fighter, but when it came out, its cannon didn’t work yet.
What is your opinion?

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